Back Quote by Sophie Hannah

“After all, much of the fondness avid readers, and certainly collectors, have for their books is related to the books' physical bodies. As much…

— Allison Hoover Bartlett

I'm not a collector. I don't keep letters, or books, or souvenirs. But I do keep one copy of each translation of my books…

— Rex Stout

“Well, yes, there were quite a lot of books throughout, tumbling out of haphazardly placed bookshelves, stacked beneath chairs, beside beds, even in the…

— Julia Glass

“Sir, the fact that the book is in a public library brings no comfort.Books are the one element in which I am personally and…

— Harold Laski

Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and I had…

— Geraldine Brooks

“In a second-hand bookshop head to the back, find the old books with dust undisturbed and worn off covers for these clothe true treasures.”

— Rachel Hall

“What can a man read in a library of cannibals? Bloody books bound by bones in tissues’ paper.”

— Stephan Attia

We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.

— Hansie Cronje

I've been a book collector since I was young, since I was a kid.

— Brett Ratner

Books were not looked upon as things unobtainable due to economic circumstances or class status. My grandfather stole an entire set of Dicken's from…

— Bob Hartley

When my father first took me to Ennis Library I went down among the shelves and felt company, not only the company of writers,…

— Niall Williams

“The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait." ( About Books; Recoiling, Rereading, Retelling , New York Times, February 22, 1987)”

— Anatole Broyard